High Flying Duck

High Flying Duck

That no 1 was a National policy carried on by Labour. It is actually a good one – it removes the 10’s of thousands of dollars “development contribution” from the cost of each section and then spreads it over 30 or so years. So rates are higher, but section prices drop.
2 & 3 are the same thing.
4 – he won’t be because there is no-one capable of replacing him. JA will burn some political capital and keep him on. A bit of a beltway issue anyway really.
5 – the strikes are becoming a problem. Especially if the “mega-strike” by school teachers goes ahead.
As for your last bit. National are unfortunately not capitalising on 1-7 as they have their own issues and are not putting any compelling narrative forward. At best it’s “a pox on both their houses!”

lurcher1948

Alan Wilkinson

robertguyton

Nothing from you on this, Pete???
“So, I was pretty willing to believe Ian Lees Galloway had made a mistake as immigration minister, and tried to do a reasonable but compassionate thing and simply failed to have all the evidence ready when he decided to let Karel Sroubek conditionally stay in the country.

In reality, we learned today, it turns out the reason the Nats knew so much about this case not because the information was legitimately “in the public domain” like they stated, but because one of their members who ran for a local board is the new partner of Karel’s ex, and they’ve been trying to put a hit out on the minister using deeply personal information, rather than having any legitimate point to make about systemic vulnerabilities in the immigration system or an actual display of lack of judgement.”https://thestandard.org.nz/the-dirty-politics-of-beating-up-on-karel-sroubek/

High Flying Duck

PartisanZ

“The idea that you would isolate someone from the circumstances that had led to their wrongdoing was simply culturally incomprehensible.”

“Dr Moana Jackson, one of Maoridom’s most influential legal scholars, has a question for New Zealand: are we “brave and imaginative enough” to stop insisting on one law for all?

“In the end, the goal of being just, the goal of restoring relationships, is not so much about one law for all but one justice for all,” said Jackson, a Victoria University of Wellington alumnus and honorary doctorate …”

“He said, “My view is that in the long term you can’t humanise prisons, which are fundamentally inhuman. So discussion, for me, should not be how we train prison officers to be more sensitive and caring but how we train them eventually to see there’s some other way of doing things; that incarceration is not the answer.”